To be really complete now, I also created a new JIRA issue: CB-10033 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10033>.
> Am 16.11.2015 um 11:00 schrieb Manfred Wühr <[email protected]>: > > Hi all! > > Herewith I would like to propose a new feature for the camera plugin: > > On iOS there's only that very insufficient inflexible cropping square – > compared to Android or WinMobile – which moreover obviously doesn’t work > properly (see CB-9930, CB-2648). As we need a flexible, sizable rectangle, we > implemented that in our fork of the camera plugin. > > And with that we even already submitted a pull request: > https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/pull/131 > <https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/pull/131> > (being very new to GitHub and Cordova we didn’t realize, that this obviously > has to be discussed here, before). > > To be downward compatible and to not urge others, for whom that square may be > sufficient, it is made parametrizable via a new preference (as this is iOS > specific and nothing that has to be changeable at runtime), defaulting to > false. > > If the plugin is called with option allowEdit == true, then setting this new > preference to true suppresses that standard (fairly useless) square for > cropping the photo, even suppresses the (then also useless) view of the photo > with the "Retake"- and "Use Photo"-buttons, but instead offers a resizable > cropping rectangle (with "Redo" and "Save“). > > More detail about how it’s implemented can be found in the comment of the > mentioned pull request; > and as there already started a discussion, I added more detail and thoughts > here > <https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/pull/131#issuecomment-156117731>. > > We think others could use and want that, too – in the standard plug in. > Yes, it is platform specific, but on Android and WinMobile it’s already > possible to crop with a flexible rectangle (somehow – knowing, that Android > also isn’t really satisfying). > > If the community thinks, it is worth merging to the standard, I will create a > corresponding JIRA issue (and eventually clean up the pull request). > > Thanks and Greetings > Manfred --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
